Franck Lepifre
Head of Chemistry, Founder
Chemistry
Meta brain research
France
Biography
Franck’s experience at working in pharma and CROs on both sides of the Atlantic gave him the chance to learn the best medicinal chemistry and innovation management practices. Prior to joining Metabrain, Franck headed Medicinal Chemistry Teams working in the diabetes field at Merck-Serono and managed contract research with Biotechs and a Big Pharma in diverse disease areas while holding positions of Lab Operations Committee Chairman at Dalton Pharma Services (Toronto, Canada). Franck obtained his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from ICOA (Université d’Orléans, France) for which he was awarded the Fournier - SFC national prize. He received post-doctoral training in Microwave-assisted parallel solution phase synthesis at York University (Toronto, Canada).
Research Interest
medicinal chemistry